Word: monts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the munitions ship Mont Blanc exploded in the harbor of Halifax, N.S. on Dec. 6, 1917, the shock was felt more than 150 miles away. The explosion killed more than 1,100, laid waste two square miles of the city. The Mont Blanc carried 3,000 tons of TNT. The single atomic bomb which fell on Hiroshima in Japan this week exploded with approximately seven times the force of that tremendous charge...
Hell's Fire. In Miles City, Mont., the Rev. John B. Fitz paused in the midst of his outdoor sermon, picked up a gun, shot two rattlesnakes that happened by, went on preaching...
Running to a car parked nearby, the painters found a note signed by August De Mont, 37, an ailing shipyard worker. "I and my daughter," it said, "have committed suicide." De Mont had had an appointment with a doctor that morning to take a basal metabolism test. He had not gone. With his five-year-old daughter, who had cried to go along just for the ride, he had driven straight to the bridge...
...home, in a neat stucco house in San Francisco's Mission District, waited Mrs. Carolyn De Mont, with daughter Carol, 8, who might have gone along with her father except that she was abed with the measles...
Flush. In Missoula, Mont., John Brandenburg was jailed when he refused to pay a $5 fine and stubbornly flushed all his money - $1,055 - down a courthouse toilet...